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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Make your own Pattern Weights

It all started when I googled "pattern weights" and was asked by Amazon to "compare prices from $9 at 8 stores" for these. . .

Seriously, from $9...I think that means starting at $9.....for 4 pattern weights. According to my calculations that's (hold on while I get my calculator) $2.25 each.

Not I, said the cat. So I set out to make my own. In minutes I had a half dozen ideas off the internet but none as easy as a suggestion by a friend to use butter knives. She said she could still remember her grandmother holding down tissue patterns with them. Because I didn't have handy what I needed to make my own, I used my knives for a couple of weeks. They worked out great and I would probably still be using them if my husband hadn't started questioning why there were never any knives in the drawer.

Plan B, break down and go get what I needed -- the biggest washers (nuts, what ever they're called) I could find. Eight of them for $5. That's way more like it.

I bought the biggest my local hardware store had.

I ripped lengths of my favorite cotton prints in strips about 3/4" wide.

9 comments:

I love this idea. I am going to home depot to get some huge washers..... And i found you over ate see kate sew. I entered your giveaway. Your patterns are wonderful. Love all of them. Glad i found you. I am following. And i hope i win the giveaway, but if i dont i will be buying some patterns from you.

Now why didn't I think of that!!! I am guilty buying those $8 weights at a craft store and I don't even use because 1. They're just not as heavy as I imagined and 2. I need more than 4 and wasn't paying for another set. I'm heading to the hardware store tomorrow to get some weights and make my own. Thank you so much for the tutorial.

Now why didn't I think of that!!! I am guilty buying those $8 weights at a craft store and I don't even use because 1. They're just not as heavy as I imagined and 2. I need more than 4 and wasn't paying for another set. I'm heading to the hardware store tomorrow to get some weights and make my own. Thank you so much for the tutorial.